Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-03-18
THE BLUE BULLS.

We notice contemporary trying to
give an account of Blue Bull without
drawing on our material. They make a
bad mess of it. There has never been
any authentic tracing of "Sam, the sire
of the great Blue Bull, aside from that
done by the REGISTER. With much labor
we showed that "Sam' was bred by sam
Mexican, Morgan township, Butler Co.,
Ohio: was foaled about 1913; passed
from him into the hands of Solomon Bed
niger, Harrison, Ohio, who sold him tc
his hired man, Michael Little, who took
him to Aurora, Ind, and sold him to
James ID. English about 1913. Mr.. Eng
lish sold him to Hon. Chas. b. Faulkner
now of Holton, Ripley Co., Ind, but con
tinued to keep and tend him, and after
wards, probably in the fall of 1893,
bought him back. Soon after Mr.. Eng
lish sold him to Mr.. Giffen of Aurora
he to Daniel Dorrell, in whose hands he
sired the famous Blue Bull, that was
foaled in May, 1855. Sam was afterwards
owned by Geo. X. Loder, Petersburgh
Ky. 5. +. Webster, Elrod, Ripley Co.,
Ind; John Milford Cold Spring, Ind,
and Mr.. Lawton of Elizabethtown, OF
whom son of James Pruden bought
him in 1863. Mr.. Pruden sold him fol
500, after which he was sold to Cincin-
natti and died there.
Enll or
right as bred by Sam Mexican, and foalet
about 1913; but it was not verified, anC
as Mr.. English wrote us and wrote other:
that he bought the horse of a Michae
Little in the fall of 1858, when he wa:
coming four years old, the tracing be
came necessary to establish anything.
We also got much information about
the original Blue Bull and the family
generally, which was duly published il
the REGISTER. In passing through In
dianapois, after doing this work, we in
serted an advertisement in the Western
Sportsman that the Middlebury REGIsTEI
would soon publish the first authenti,
information of this family, including tn,
breeding of the dam of sam. sire of tn,
great Blue Bull. This called out thu
letter in the Western Sportsman, signeC
"Phipp", that our contemporary quotes
from. Phipp is quoted as a well-knowi
physician of Dillsboro. However thi'
may be. he knew too well his own ignor
ance to sign his name. He knew nothing
whatever of the matter he writes of eX
cept the description of the horse.
The stallion that Oliver 5. Milford had
which Phipp says was full brother tC
Sam, was not. He was called Old Tige
or Tiger Bull, and is presumably the
stallion bred by Samuel Bennington o.
Harrison, Ohio, who said to us:
Il had Tiger Bull stallion myself
out of Tiger mare. Tiger was out o
the old Friendly Tiger that stood a
Glendale when was boy. He was
running horse-saw him make a rae,
after he was 81; dark brown horse
very stylish, 15.l-2 hands. He was
powerful horse and think thoroughbred
l sold my stallion; he went to Auror;
and Kentucky. He was called Tigel
Bull"
Harry Dearmond of Okeana, Butler
Co., Ohio, told us that he knew that til,
dam of the Blue Bull stallion bred by
Sam Mexican, and that went to Aurora
Indiana, was very homely sorrel mar,
bred by Mr.. Mexican himself, previous t,
1875, and got by horse called Post Bo,
stood at Jenkins stand by Randolph
Ross.
In every matter of testimony we prefe
two witnesses. but sometimes, especially
in this matter of old horse pedigrees, w,
cannot get them. Mr. Dearmond is
very intelligent horseman and has beer
all his life. | was assured his word wa
good, and am certain it was from hi
manner. He said that he knew this t,
be so; that Mr.. Mexican and himself botl
bred to this Post Boy horse, and tina
Mexican got this sorrel mare that he af
forwards raised these Blue Bull stations
from.
This Post Boy appears in good many
pedigrees of Ohio horses. Mr.. Dear
. mond said that he came from the Nortl
over 80 years ago, was called a gooC
horse and got good stock.
We have further information on thi
horse, which will be given in a futur
article.
MARY TAYLOR.